Biletska, Mariia [Білецька Марія; Bilec'ka, Marija; née Bilynska; Lisetska by her first marriage], b 1864 in Ternopil, d 31 December 1937 in Lviv. Civic and educational figure. To 1908 Biletska was the organizer and director of the Taras Shevchenko School, the first Ukrainian private school for girls, and the Saint Olha Institute in Lviv. She was also an organizer of Trud, a women’s manufacturing co-operative, which provided vocational training and general education; the long-time head of the Club of Ruthenian Women and the Women's Hromada in Lviv; a member of the National Committee of the National Democratic party, and a founding member of the Ukrainian Labor party.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]